As 2020 ends it is a good moment to reflect on the learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst I understand a bit of optimism wrt. the vaccines can help boost morale, it would be a vile act to make the millions of casualties useless by not conducting an honest and truthful exercise to find out what went wrong. From this, we must change the way we manage global catastrophic risks, it's going to happen again. And it will be worse. I know, this is a blog about emergency management in the … [Read more...] about COVID-19: when you’re not ready for an emergency